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" I believe that animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number. "
Darwinism Tested by Language - Page 5
by Sir Frederick Bateman - 1877 - 224 pages
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The Edinburgh Review, Volume 111

1860 - 566 pages
...ideas of the affinities and relationships of animal groups obtained by subsequent induction, says : ' I believe that animals have descended ' from at most only four or five progenitors,' [evidently meaning, or answering to, the type-forms of the four or five ' sub-kingdoms' in modern zoology],...
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History of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, Instituted ..., Volume 10

Berwickshire Naturalists' Club (Scotland) - 1885 - 730 pages
...with modification embraces all the members of the same class. I believe that animals have desconded from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or less number. " Analogy would lead me one step further, namely to the belief that all animals and plants...
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The Methodist Quarterly Review, Volume 43

1861 - 716 pages
...with modification to members of the same class. Then he launches out still more boldly and says : " I believe that animals have descended from at most...four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or less number." (Page 419.) He seems inclined to stop again at this point, but a little thought soon...
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The New Englander, Volume 18

1860 - 1172 pages
...Notices of Books. 517 from the facts of animal and vegetable life warrants the conclusion, that Ml living animals "have descended from, at most, only four or...equal or lesser number. Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one prototype....
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New Englander and Yale Review, Volume 18

Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1860 - 1174 pages
...warrants the conclusion, that all living animals " have descended from, at most, only four or live progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number. Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one prototype....
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The Methodist new connexion magazine and evangelical repository, Volume 78

1875 - 828 pages
...operation of natural causes. In his work on the " Origin of Species" he snys " I believe that animals are descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number." On the same page he goes much further : " Analogy would lead me one step farther, namely, to the belief...
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The Popular lecturer [afterw.] Pitman's Popular lecturer (and ..., Volumes 4-6

Henry Pitman - 1316 pages
...nature of things ensures the propagation of individuals in whom this divergence is maintained : this * " I believe that animals have descended from at most...progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number." — Origin of Species, p. 484. Mr Darwin goes on to say: " Analogy would lead one step further, namely,...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 6

1860 - 800 pages
...descent with modification embraces all the members of the same class." Furthermore, " I believe that all animals have descended from at most only four or five...progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number." Seeing that analogy as strongly suggests a further step in the same direction, while he protests that...
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The Canadian Naturalist and Geologist, Volume 5

1860 - 512 pages
...cannot ^doubt that the theory of descent with modification embraces all the members of the same class. I believe that animals have descended from at most...or lesser number. " Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one prototype....
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The Christian observer [afterw.] The Christian observer and advocate

1860 - 890 pages
...cannot doubt that the theory of descent with modification embraces all the members of the same class. I believe that animals have descended from at most...equal or lesser number. Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one prototype."...
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